Airborne_Again wrote:
Actually, Australia the continent is more than four times the size of Greenland the island
Embarassingly, I think I fell into the Mercator projection trap, and/or mixed km and sm.
Greenland: 2,166,086 square kilometres
Mainland Australia: 7,617,930 square kilometres (2,941,300 square miles)
Edit: the difference between the two is much clearer in this animated gif
Capitaine wrote:
Mainland Australia: 7,617,930 square kilometres (2,941,300 square miles)
The continent also comprises slightly more than the mainland.
The poor Icelanders must have a multiple personality disorder with that continental divide in the middle of the island.
